WOODBURY -- Four agencies have each been awarded $2,500 grants by the freeholders for summer arts and nature programming for at-risk youth.

The funds are from the state Juvenile Justice Commission.

• The Center for Family Services will offer a “Healing through Music” program that will enable up to 16 youth to creatively express themselves through structured music making and improvisation.

• Gloucester County Boys and Girls Club in Glassboro and Paulsboro Clubs will have four special activities included in their summer camp activities -- including a trip to the Wetlands Institute outside Stone Harbor.

• Robins' Nest will conduct a six-week Art Therapy group for eight youth which will be co-facilitated by a therapist and the artist, Karen Stone. The youth will make sculptural characters/totems or life figures which will help them express emotions as a therapeutic activity.

• Youth Consultation Services will host two activities for its Paulsboro Mentoring program that will include a Hip Hop Dance Program led by a professional dancer and a Scrap Book program lead by an artist and former state Division of Youth and Family Services employee.

“This project will bring art to many young people who otherwise wouldn't have the opportunity to explore and learn about new outlets for their creativity,” said Freeholder Director Stephen M. Sweeney.